8th AJHSME 1992 2 10-9+8—7+6—-5+4- 1-2+3-4+5-6+7-8+9 (A)-1 (B)1. (C5. (D) 9 (B) 10 . Which of the following is not equal to Sn we eit oid wig eg . What is the largest difference that can be formed by subtracting two numbers chosen from the set {—16,—4,0,2,4, 12}? (A)10 (BY) 12, (C) 16 = (D) 28 (EB) 48 |. During the softball season, Judy had 35 hits, Among her hits were 1 home run, 1 triple and 5 doubles. The rest of her hits were singles. What percent of her hits were singles? (A) 28% — (B) 35% © (C) 70% © (DD) 75% — (E) 80% . A circle of diameter 1 is removed from a 2 x 3 rectangle, as shown. Which whole number is closest to the area of the shaded region? (A)1 (B)2 (C)3— (DY) 4 (BY Suppose that Ly means a+6—c. For example, As is 5+4-6=3. hen tesum LX BY i (Aye 2) (8) 1 (C)0. (D1 (e)2 . The digit-sum of 998 is 9+9 +8 = 26. How many 3-digit whole numbers, whose digit-sum is 26, are even? (A)l (B)2 (C)3) ()4 BS . A store owner bought 1500 pencils at $0.10 each. If he sells them for $0.25" each, how many of them must he sell to make a profit of exactly $100.00? (A) 400 (B) 667 (C) 1000 (D) 1500 (E) 1900| 8th AJHSME 1992 3 9. The population of a small town is 480. The graph indicates the number of females and males in the town, but the vertical scale-values are omitted. How many POPULATION males live in the town? (A) 120 (B) 160 (C) 200 | ~ (D) 240 ‘E) 360 @) (E) . a 10. An isosceles right triangle with legs of length 8 is partitioned into 16 congruent triangles as shown. ‘The shaded area is (A) 10 (B) 20. (C) 32, (D) 40. (B) 64 11. The bar graph shows the results of a survey on color preferences. What q percent preferred blue? u __ (A) 20% — (B) 24% — (C) 30% )®) 36% © (E) 42% y on COLOR SURVEY ZeOne Rane ZoemO 12. The five tires of a car (four road tires and a full-sized spare) were rotated so that each tire was used the same number of miles during the first 30,000 miles the car traveled. For how many miles was each tire used? (A) 6000 (B) 7500 (C) 24,000 (D) 30,000 (E) 37,500 13. Five test scores have a mean (average score) of 90, a median (middle score) of 91 and a mode (most frequent score) of 94. The sum of the two lowest test scores is (A) 170 (B) 171. (C) 176 = (D) 17 (B) not determined by the information given @ ‘When four gallons are added to a tank that is one-third full, the tank is then one-half full. The capacity of the tank in gallons is (A)8 (B) 12, (C) 20. (D) 24 (B) 4815. 16. 1. 18. 19. 20. 8th AJHSME 1992 4 What is the 1992" letter in this sequence? ABCDEDCBAABCDEDCBAABCDEDCBAABCDEDC: -- (AA (B)B (C)¢ ~(D)D- (BE 5 to the right? Which cylinder has twice the volume of the cylinder shown 2» 1 (B) (A) (C) (D) Co 4 (B) None of the above ‘The sides of a triangle have lengths 6.5, 10, and s, where s is a whole number. What is the smallest possible value of 5? ie (A3 (B)4 (C)5 (D6 (B)7 a4 On a trip, a car traveled 80 miles in an hour and a half, then was stopped in traffic for 30 minutes, then traveled 100 miles during the next 2 hours. What was the car’s average speed in miles per hour for the 4-hour trip? (A) 45 (B) 50 (C) 60 = (D) 75 ~— (E) 90 The distance between the 5** and 26** exits on an interstate highway is 118 miles. If any two exits are at least 5 miles apart, then what is the largest number of miles there can be between two consecutive exits that are between the 5" and 26" exits? (A)8 (B) 13 (C) 18 (D) 47_—s (B) 98 Which pattern of identical squares could NOT be folded along the lines shown, to form a cube? (AL (B)